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WAUSEON, OH – Saturday night Oakshade Raceway welcomed fans to the grandstands for the first time in 2020 thanks to the easing of some restrictions from the health department. A decent crowd, practicing social distancing, was treated to some great racing action in the 31st Barney Oldfield Memorial Race with Parkersburg, West Virginia's Tyler Carpenter…

Oakshade Raceway welcomes fans for the first time in 2020 with the 31st Annual Barney Oldfield Race paying $4,500 to win and $250 to start for UMP DIRTcar Late Models. UMP DIRTcar Sportsman, Bombers and Compacts will also be back in action. All in attendance are being asked to adhere to the State’s social…

We finally got the news we have been waiting for. The Fulton County Health Department has informed us we will be permitted to have grandstand race fans starting this weekend (Saturday, June 20th) with the Barney Oldfield Race. However, we will be limited to 50% of our capacity with social distancing between groups. All…

WAUSEON, OH – For the third week in a row, Oakshade Raceway ran a full racing program without a grandstand crowd due to health department's restrictions because of Covid-19. Fans missed out seeing some intense action that included defending track champion Devin Shiels getting turned up on his lid in his heat race and Adrian, Michigan's Jake Rendel earning his very…

Once again we can have no general admission spectators for tonight's ( Saturday, June 13th) full racing program of UMP Late Models, UMP Sportsman, Bombers and Compacts. No general admission tickets will be sold. Pit passes will be sold at the main pit gate and the back walk through gate. All pit passes are $30.00…

WAUSEON, OH – Rusty Schlenk earned his second consecutive feature win at Oakshade Raceway, which was hosting racing action for a second week without fans in the grandstands on Saturday night due to restrictions from the local health department. Veteran racer Hillard Miller started from the pole of the UMP Late Model feature and led the first handful of laps with…

A full slate of racing in on tap for Saturday, June 6 with UMP Late Models, UMP Sportsman, Hot Rod Welding & Engineering Bombers and Compacts with much of the same restrictions as last weekend (listed in this post). Unfortunately we still are not permitted to have fans in the grandstands. More details will…

WAUSEON, OH – Oakshade Raceway finally kicked off the 2020 race season on Saturday night with a full field of competitors, but with no grandstand spectators per health department guidelines due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Even though no spectators were there to witness it, Rusty Schlenk was able put on a clinic and dominated the very first Oakshade Raceway feature event…

We have good news!! Not great news, but good news! We will open Saturday, May 30th with UMP Late Models, UMP Sportsman, Bombers & Compacts. We will NOT be able to have any spectators in the stands. We are still working out the details and will post more details soon. We are…

The races for Saturday, May 23rd are canceled. We have been in communication with our local Health Department. We will continue to keep working on getting back to racing. We will update everyone when we know more. We hope to see you all soon!!

Due to Ohio Governor Mike DeWine extending the stay at home, order we have canceled races for May 2nd, May 9th and May 16th. We hope to be back to racing soon! Make sure to follow us on Twitter, like us on Facebook or keep checking our website for updates.

Due to the State of Ohio’s Stay at Home order which goes through the end of April, we have canceled for April 25th. Please follow the social distancing order so we can stay healthy and get back to doing what we love. We would like to say Thank You to everyone working on the frontline…